A black-and-white digital chromogenic print portrait of artists Rashid Johnson (left) and Hank Willis Thomas (right). Johnson and Thomas are depicted from the waist up in front of an intricate, geometric backdrop. Both men wear dark pinstripe suit jackets, black neck ties with graphic white stripes, and white shirts. Johnson has long dark dreadlocks and gazes up and to his proper left. Thomas has
A pamphlet composed of a single rectangular sheet, printed on both sides, and divided into three panels by two fold lines. The pamphlet makes a square when folded. The pamphlet is composed of cream paper and printed with brown ink. The front side features a photograph of the entry to Agnes Simmons' house on Daufuskie Island at the top panel with the text [A PROSPECTUS / LaVerne Wells-Bowie] printe
A pamphlet composed of a single rectangular sheet, printed on both sides, and divided into three panels by two fold lines. The pamphlet makes a square when folded. The pamphlet is composed of cream paper and printed with brown ink. The front side features a photograph of the entry to Agnes Simmons' house on Daufuskie Island at the top panel with the text [A PROSPECTUS / LaVerne Wells-Bowie] printe
This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
This is a set of twelve (12) large, rectangular blueprint sheets (a-l) of architectural drawings reproduced in white lines on bright blue background for a residential project in Washington, DC. There is no cover sheet, the first drawing (a) begins with the "Plot Plan." At the bottom right corner is the text [A RESIDENCE / FOR / MR & MRS DONALD F. CARDOZO / TO BE LOCATED AT / FOURTY FOURTH & MARNE
This is a set of thirteen (13) large, rectangular blueprint sheets (a-m) of architectural drawings reproduced in white on bright blue background for a residential project in Petersburg, Virginia. The set begins with a cover sheet (a), reading at center: [A RESIDENCE FOR / MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. MOORE / PETERSBURG VIRGINIA] and at bottom left: [JULIAN A. COOK / DESIGNER / WASHINGTON D.C.]. Each subs
A black and white stereograph of women and children standing on a large pile of rice-straw on a raft. Twenty people are in the photograph. Water and trees are in the background. Printed vertically on the left side of the card is "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers / New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas." Printed vertically on the right side of the card is "Works and Studios ~ Arlington,
This DVD contains a recording by the Alfred Street Baptist Church of the sermon "A Rizpah Response II, 2 Samuel 21:1-14" given by Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley at the Alexandria, Virginia, church on March 25, 2012. The silver disc has black text printed on the front side with information about the video recorded on it and the complete contact information for the church. In the video Wesley stands at
This book contains the text of Reverend William T. Catto's sermon "A Semi-Centenary Discourse," and a history of the First African Presbyterian, the nation's first black Presbyterian church, founded in Philadelphia in 1807. The volume has 111 pages bound in black cloth and gilt lettering on the front cover. Inscriptions are handwritten in black ink and black crayon on the final interior page regar
This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
A paperback, British edition of General Colin L. Powell's autobiography, titled A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography. The book has a glossy paper cover with a color portrait of General Powell from the chest up, in uniform, with his four-star general shoulder boards prominently displayed. In large white, black, and red text, the cover reads: “COLIN / POWELL / A SOLDIER’S WAY / AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY / with